Industry? What do they mean by industry? Private spying? Private airstrikes?

Actually, that EXACTLY tallies with what Zaphod said. The job appears to be a project level manager for drones, maybe higher. The applicant will be
expected to be able to meet and interact with the military side (1), the civilian side (2), actually put together the information he gets into some
sort of coherent picture (3), write and test operating procedure (4) and keep them out of the way of airplanes (5).

"industry" in this case means the aerospace industry, the guys designing and building the drones. You would sort of have to interact with these guys
if you're managing a project or group of projects.

In the case that you are right, here is a question: I thought your military was scaling back activities in the Middle East (withdrawing from Iraq?)?
What, then, is with the large-scale upramping of production/training/deployment facilities. The cost must be enormous. What is the perceived threat?

China. Specifically, China's expected to start being a problem in Africa. If you can imagine. Lots of territory to cover, thus, drones.

The Air Force guidelines permit using drones domestically to assist law enforcement in “investigating or preventing clandestine intelligence
activities by foreign powers, international narcotics activities , or international terrorist activities.” More vague is language that also allows
military cooperation with local law enforcement for the purposes of “preventing, detecting, or investigating other violations of law.”

That's always been around. More to the point, the military is allowed to train LEOs for strictly domestic law enforcement, no furriners necessary.
That's been true for as long as I can remember. The kicker, of course, is that such instruction can take place during the op.

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